Pete whittled a fake idol out of a chunk of wood and sold it like the real thing, and somehow that's the calmer half of his game. The engineering grad threw in with the most volatile player in the cast, Abi-Maria, and together the two kept Tandang in a permanent state of paranoia — phantom idols, manufactured distrust, allies turned on each other for sport. Fun as it was to watch, none of it built him a tribe he could actually trust, and that's the kind of bill that comes due the second the buffs change.
It came due at the merge. The Tandang bloc finally cracked at Dangrayne, the vote deadlocked in a tie, and on the revote Pete got shipped to the jury as the fourth juror — the crack that handed Malcolm, Denise, and their side control of the whole game. He went out eighth, the quiet strategist of all that chaos, a guy who cooked up better television than he ever did numbers.
